Why the Pope opposes condoms

[babsbunny]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7951839.stm

By Robert Pigott
BBC Religious Affairs Correspondent

Pope Benedict XVI is a man of enormous authority.

When he says "don't use condoms - even to prevent the spread of Aids" it has a significant impact among tens, even hundreds of millions of people.

Getting on for a fifth of Africans are Roman Catholic.

The Church has been growing more quickly in Africa than anywhere else, and this is the Pope's first visit there in the four years he has been the spiritual leader of the world's approximately one billion Catholics.

[omega minimo]

1. Because when spent they look like his funny hat?

[valerief]

2. we know. Because he doesn't like the way they feel. Besides,

little boys don't get pregnant.

[MadMaddie]

3. Africa has one of the fastest growing Aid's populations in the

world. Starvation of children is extremely high.

Through Rape and unprotected consensual sex.

This is beyond irresponsible.

[greenkal]

13. You can blame rap for some things...

but blaming music for AIDs and starvation is ridiculous. Do you not like that type of music because it's black?

[MadMaddie]

16. oopsie...didn't add the e on rap

= rape

Corrected now.

[BuyingThyme]

4. The Pope opposes condoms because he's a dick

and he doesn't want to suffocate.

[Lint Head]

5. I give a man any credence that spoke highly of Hitler is despicable to me.

:dem:

[Po_d Mainiac]

6. removed

[TexasProgresive]

21. Can you reference a quote, a link or are you just making that up?

n/t

[Dorian Gray]

22. He's making it up

The Pope never praised Hitler.

There is enough out there to critique the man for, we don't need to make crap up.

[TexasProgresive]

23. Thank you Dorian

and may you age more gracefully then your portrait.

It's bad when the Right wing makes up facts but it is worse when our side does it. They are better at ignoring the truth when it slaps them in the face then we are. Anyway we should leave the lies for the liars.

[Dorian Gray]

28. Thanks...

:)

And you are right. I am uncomfortable with made up crap as well.

[truebrit71]

24. So he wasn't part of the Hitler Youth as a kid?

Hmm..I thought i'd read that somewhere... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article382076.ece

[Dorian Gray]

27. That's different....

every young male was a member of the Hitler Youth. It was a sort of mandatory Boy Scouts.

Where has he ever made pro-Hitler statements.

[JenniferJuniper]

7. I think, as usual, Monty Python explained it best

I'm a Roman Catholic,
And have been since before I was born,
And the one thing they say about Catholics is
They'll take you as soon as you're warm.

You don't have to be a six footer,
You don't have to have a great brain,
You don't have to have any clothes on,
You're a Catholic the moment Dad came, because

Every sperm is sacred,
Every sperm is great,
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

[WillParkinson]

8. Because he doesn't own stock in the company...

And because he doesn't really care about anyone other than himself.

[Stevenmarc]

9. Because he has the scientific aptitude of Pope Urban VIII

[Warpy]

17. That's it, exactly

He's a man of the twelfth century, not the twentieth.

Don't let those shoes fool you.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

10. I read this as "Why the Pope oppossoms condoms"

and I was like :wtf:

[glinda]

11. He equates condoms with "sex without marriage".

but also "homosexuality" and preventing aids. I guess he could care less if gays die. The last Pope was kinda cool. This one is a real evil nut bag.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. Latex allergy.... that's my take... n/t

[Dangerously Amused]

14. RCs not using condoms = more RCs;

More RCs = more $$$ in the collection plate.

More $$$ in the collection plate = Pope living a life of disgusting luxury in his castle:



Pssst. Remember how harshly Jesus condemned wealthy people who turn a blind eye to the suffering of the poor? Yeah, we ignore that part. Inconvenient truth, and all.

[mitchum]

15. I thought it was because catamites can't get pregnant

[saltpoint]

18. Not to dispute the statistical growth of Catholic populations there or

anyplace else, the admonition against condom use is an irresponsible public health position.

The Pope is either badly misled on basic physiology or he's selling snake oil on the tarmac.

Marital fidelity is an excellent goal but, as humans are the ones who are married, it is not always 100% realized. Sexual abstinence, more or less, does not exist.

[Kip Humphrey]

19. Because he's a dickhead and everyone knows that dicks HATE condoms.

[BlooInBloo]

20. Because he's a worthless holocaust-denying hitler youth rapee excommunicating...

piece of shit.

[truebrit71]

25. Well yes, there is that too...

...now tell us how you REALLY feel... ;-)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

26. I figure it's the same reason he opposed the Red Army.

Because he approves of ethnic minorities dying.